This paper addresses a challenging problem in computational mechanics—the analysis of thick shallow shells vibrating at high modes. Existing methods encounter significant difficulties for such a problem due to numerical instability. A new numerical approach, DSC-Ritz method, is developed by taking the advantages of both the discrete singular convolution (DSC) wavelet kernels of the Dirichlet ty...

Experimentally determined natural frequencies and modes shapes are presented for an elastically point-supported isotropic plate with attached masses under impulsive loading. These results are compared to frequencies and to modes shapes determined from the Rayleigh–Ritz method and a finite element analysis using COMSOL. Accelerometers mounted at three locations on the plate, provide input for ME...

The main objective of this research work was to investigate three-dimensional free vibration of thick annular plates which are composed of carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced composites materials using the Chebyshev–Ritz method. In order to obtain precise results, a new form of the rule of mixtures including an exponential shape function, length efficiency parameter, orientation efficiency factor,...

An alternative to the classical Ritz method of approximate optimization is investigated. In the extended Ritz method, sets of admissible solutions are approximated by their intersections with linear combinations of n-tuples from a given set. This approximation scheme, called variable-basis approximation, includes functions computable by trigonometric polynomials with free frequencies, neural ne...

1 Why and how The Lanczos method is quite eeective if the desired eigenvalue is either max or min and if this eigenvalue is relatively well separated from the remaining spectrum, or when the method is applied with (A ? I) ?1 , for some reasonable guess for an eigenvalue. If none of these conditions is fulllled, for instance the computation of a vector (A ? I) ?1 y for given y may be computation...

This paper demonstrates the possibility of incorporating load-dependent Ritz vectors, as an alternative to modal parameters, into a Bayesian probabilistic framework for detecting damages in a structure. Recent research has shown that it is possible to extract load-dependent Ritz vectors from vibration tests [2]. This paper shows that load-dependent Ritz vectors have the following potential adva...